i really would like to administer the arrays with luxadm again so the whole thing is really anoying. is this configuration supported under sol10 anyway? if not. it must be a standing joke because i'm booting the machine from the a5200 and veritas also sees the disks.

Blah... Kudos for trying to older package! [I remember I had a client dump their 18x9GB A series array when I moved them from Sol 7 to Sol 10 because it said it was unsupported. 2 x 147GB drives more then made up for it. [The old array was dropping disk almost weekly near the end.]

in the end i switched entirely to sol9 because sol10 was unable to boot with the sol9 sf module. since i'm not interested in sol10 in this context its not a big deficit here. veritas is working, luxadm is working...mission complete